h264enc for Linux

[Goga777]

for me more logical will be "-h" and "--help", not "-help". Of course it is up to you

[microchip8]

for me more logical will be "-h" and "--help", not "-help". Of course it is up to you


if it really bothers you, you can always modify the script and add --help to the case statement :P

[mdoyounos]

Have a lot of trouble in Linux

[Goga777]

everything is fine under linux & h264enc

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.4.5
* Don't require FAAC to be compiled with MP4 container support (the -w option).
Some distro's do not compile FAAC with MP4 support so play it safe and assume FAAC isn't compiled with MP4 support

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.4.6

* Bugfix: FAAC encoding was using wrong language TID in mkvmerge. Should be 0 instead of 1 as we no longer encapsulate AAC in MP4
* Removed --no-chapters mkvmerge option for FAAC encoding. It's no longer needed as we no longer store the AAC audio in MP4 container

[lib3rty1]

Hi,
I got latest version of h264enc but I got error like



Starting to encode in: 5 4 3 2 1
MEncoder SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
-nosub is not an MEncoder option

Exiting... (error parsing command line)
-> MEncoder has exited with a non-zero value!
-> Exiting in function: mencoder_exit()


I use

h264enc -2p -p flhq


any idea how to fix it ?

[microchip8]

Please upgrade your MPlayer. It's 3 years old for God's sake!

[lib3rty1]

ok, now it does work perfect ;-)

I have question.

When I use -2p -p flhq I got about 3 fps and when I use other options a got a lot more fps and better speed of conversion.

Do you know why it might be like that ?

[microchip8]

I don't really know. You need to provide more info like what CPU you have and which are those other options you're running

[lib3rty1]

OK so other option is

h264enc -2p -hq

I am using VPS on OpenVZ 40 GB SSD 8 GB MEM and 4x2 GHz CPU

I have question about subs.

If I am adding subtitles to include in a time to use coding. In what kind of way I add coding ?

I mean like: UTF8 or utf8

[microchip8]

I don't know why you get low speeds, but make sure all your CPUs are maxed out by the encoding. This should be done automatically as h264enc uses threads=0 which tells libx264 to use all CPUs you throw at it

I don't understand your second question, can you be more clear?

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.4.7
* Change bad default bitrate value in DTS audio encoding to 384kbps.

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.4.8

* Added bluray_compat=1 parameter to the Blu-ray and AVCHD presets
* Use 'true' instead of 'false' where appropriate
* Updated the man page

[lib3rty1]

hi again
I have new question....
what should I do to have polish letters in encodes. I mean like ź, ż, ć as i don`t have them only empty fields

[microchip8]

hi again
I have new question....
what should I do to have polish letters in encodes. I mean like ź, ż, ć as i don`t have them only empty fields

No idea, really :/

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.4.9

* Use ffmpeg's MPEG12 decoder instead of the libmpeg12 one

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.0

* Bugfix: add missing 384 kbps option for AC3 audio
* Notify the user when we first create the config file
* SAR is Sample Aspect Ratio, not Storage Aspect Ratio. Corrected this mistake

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.1

* Use aften for AC3 audio encoding as MEncoder is currently broken. This bumps up the config file version to 22

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.2

* Fix OGM muxing with AC3 audio

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.3

* Removed workarounds for older MP4Box versions. As of this release, only gpac 0.5.0 and higher is supported.
SVN version is highly recommended, though
* Improved AC3 and MP3 audio handling
* Removed turbo option. It is no longer needed
* When using AC3 audio, language TID for MKV was set to 1. It should be 0

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.4

* Improved the expand filter code
* Optimized the Blu-ray/AVCHD HQ presets for better quality

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.5

* Enable weightp for the Blu-ray/AVCHD HQ presets. In order to have a broader compatibility with older Blu-ray players
(mostly ones with buggy MediaTek chips), weightp is set to 1 and not 2
* Set VBV maxrate to 40000 and VBV buffer to 30000 for the Blu-ray presets
* Set color primaries, transfer characteristics and matrix coeffs to bt709 for the Blu-ray/AVCHD presets
* Set default position of the expand filter to after the scale filter

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.6

* Add rc_lookahead to the Blu-ray/AVCHD presets
* When input is file, detect and display info about audio codec, channels, sample rate and bitrate

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.7

* Add fake_interlaced flag to 25fps/29.970fps content when using the Blu-ray presets. It allows to encode progressive 25p and 30p
content but flags it as interlaced for Blu-ray compliance

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.8

* Set VBV maxrate to 18k and VBV bufsize to 17k for the AVCHD presets
* Added support for frame packing for 3D video
* Add fake_interlaced to the AVCHD presets

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.5.9

* Set correct color prims, transfers and matrix coeffs for Blu-ray/AVCHD SD resolutions
* Removed space between two questions
* Removed the sd* and hd* presets. They are useless
* Updated the man page

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.0

* Fix audio TID for MKV when using neroAacEnc as encoder

[Achajr]

For I encode with 2 audios, what I have to do, because when I am in part:
Specify the Audio Stream ID [default is 0]
s'me the option to track one, not me the option to track 2.

What do I do?

[microchip8]

you can only encode multiple audio streams when encoding from DVDs. I haven't added support for this when encoding from file

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.1
* Added support for encoding to 640 kbps AC3 audio

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.2
* Added -readtoeof 1 option to the aften AC3 encoder. This ignores WAV header signaling and fixes encoding from a named pipe

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.3

* Added support for setting the Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) profile for AC-3 audio
* Renamed aften $AC3 variable to $AC3ENC
* Use AC-3 instead of AC3 naming in metadata info

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.4

* Restrict the AVCHD presets to AC-3 and COPY audio
* Update the audio selection for the Blu-ray presets. DTS audio was supported but it wasn't displayed in the selection
* Renamed function track_echo_func() to audio_track_echo_func() for consistency

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.5
* Bugfix: codec detection for 2nd and 3rd audio track from DVDs did not work correctly

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.6

* Added support for the Opus audio codec. Requires opusenc and a recent version of mkvtoolnix with support for Opus
* Updated the man page

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.7

* Implemented support for 2nd and 3rd audio track when using "file" as input
* Bugfix: when using Opus audio, calculating target file size was not possible
* Added support for setting the AC-3 Exponent strategy search size
* Allow applying an LFE filter to the AC-3 audio
* Improved aften and opusenc options passing

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.8

* Added -demuxer lavf for more reliable detection of audio streams in file input mode
* Implemented virtually infinite support for the amount of audio tracks. This introduces a new variable in
the config file, MAX_AMOUNT_AUD_TRACKS, where the user can specify how many audio tracks he/she wants h264enc to support.

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.6.9
* Various bugfixes for multi-track audio support

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.0
* Fix copying of subsequent audio tracks

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.1

* Enabled multi-channel support for Opus audio
* Moved the MKV audio filters metadata after the audio codec/language metadata
* Fixed copy and pcm audio encoding
* If user chooses PCM for subsequent audio tracks, don't error out but just skip the track
* Some minor clean-ups

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.2

* Fixed exporting of the NERORMAUD variable to the batch file
* Implemented support for virtually an infinite amount of subtitles. This introduces a new variable,
MAX_AMOUNT_SUBS, to the config file where the user can set the amount of subtitles he/she wants h264enc to support
* Added output name to the message of the mail notification feature
* Fixed the nosound audio option
* renamed the rmtemp() function to exit_func()
* Return proper exit codes. 0 on success, 1 on error and 2 on user interrupt

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.3

* Merged the file and dvd audio detection/selection code
* Merged the audio code for the first and subsequent tracks
* Set a default audio ID based on input (ie, 0 for file and 128 for DVD)
* Use -demuxer lavf for file and dir input
* Small improvements to the subtitles code
* Renamed the -help switch to -h
* Improved the way audio tracks information is presented to the user
* Make destination dir if it doesn't exist for saving to the batchfile
* Updated the man page

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.4

* Fixed copying of E-AC-3 audio
* Set default value for 3D frame packing to 3 (side by side)
* Moved some audio selection code into the new set_audio_codec_func() function.
Reduces some code duplication and removes the default_audio_codec_func() function

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.5

* Added support for importing a chapters file for MKV/MP4/OGM when input is file
* Added support for setting the audio language code for MKV/MP4/OGM/TS when input is file
* Added support for setting the subtitle language code when importing subs into MKV/MP4/OGM

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for 9.7.6

* Allow importing of PGS subtitles into the MKV container
* Improved chapters file handling for MKV/MP4/OGM when input is file

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.7

* Allow relative paths when storing options to the batchfile
* Updated copyright dates

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.8

* New variable in the config file, DELETE_AVI_AFTER_REMUX, to automatically delete the AVI file after remuxing. This updates the config file version to 27
* Renamed the 480 and 576 params of the colorprim_func() function to ntsc and pal

[microchip8]

ChangeLog for version 9.7.9

* Added support for hardcoding embedded subtitles in files
* Use -nosub for hadrcoding an external subtitle to prevent auto-loading of any embedded subtitles in the input
* Use -ao null instead of -nosound

[Selur]

Use -ao null instead of -nosound
Shouldn't they do different things?
"-ao null" = should dump the audio output to null, but still do audio processing (scanning for audio streams)
"-nosound" = disable all audio processing
since '-ao null' is an mplayer only option, don't you also use mencoder?